4. having or consisting of a relatively large number of items or parts: a long list 5. having greater than the average or expected range: a long memory 6. being the longer or longest of alternatives: the long way to the bank 7. having more than the average or usual quantity, extent, or duration: a long match 8. seeming to occupy a greater time than is really so: she spent a long afternoon waiting in the departure lounge 9. intense or thorough (esp in the phrase a long look) 10. (of drinks) containing a large quantity of nonalcoholic beverage 11. (of a garment) reaching to the wearer’s ankles 12. (informal) (foll by on) plentifully supplied or endowed (with): long on good ideas 13. (phonetics, of a speech sound, esp a vowel)

14. from end to end; lengthwise 15. unlikely to win, happen, succeed, etc: a long chance 16. (prosody)

17. (finance) having or characterized by large holdings of securities or commodities in anticipation of rising prices: a long position 18. (cricket) (of a fielding position) near the boundary: long leg 19. (informal) (of people) tall and slender 20. in the long run, See run (sense 82) 21. (informal) long in the tooth, old or ageing adverb 22. for a certain time or period: how long will it last? 23. for or during an extensive period of time: long into the next year 24. at a distant time; quite a bit of time: long before I met you, long ago 25. (finance) into a position with more security or commodity holdings than are required by sale contracts and therefore dependent on rising prices for profit: to go long 26. as long as, so long as

27. no longer, not any more; formerly but not nownoun 28. a long time (esp in the phrase for long) 29. a relatively long thing, such as a signal in Morse code 30. a clothing size for tall people, esp in trousers 31. (phonetics) a long vowel or syllable 32. (finance) a person with large holdings of a security or commodity in expectation of a rise in its price; bull 33. (music) a note common in medieval music but now obsolete, having the time value of two breves 34. before long, soon 35. the long and the short of it, the essential points or facts /lɒŋ/verb 1. (intransitive; foll by for or an infinitive) to have a strong desire /lɒŋ/verb 1. (intransitive) (archaic) to belong, appertain, or be appropriate abbreviation 1. longitude /lɒŋ/noun 1. Crawford Williamson. 1815–78, US surgeon. He was the first to use ether as an anaestheticadj.

“that extends considerably from end to end,” Old English lang “long,” from Proto-Germanic *langgaz (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon lang, Old High German and German lang, Old Norse langr, Middle Dutch lanc, Dutch lang, Gothic laggs “long”).

The adverb is from Old English lange, longe, from the adjective. No longer “not as formerly” is from c.1300; to be not long for this world “soon to die” is from 1714.

The word illustrates the Old English tendency for short “a” to become short “o” before -n- (also retained in bond/band and West Midlands dialectal lond from land and hond from hand).

Long vowels (c.1000) originally were pronounced for an extended time. Sporting long ball is from 1744, originally in cricket. Long jump as a sporting event is attested from 1864. A ship’s long-boat so called from 1510s. Long knives, name Native Americans gave to white settlers (originally in Virginia/Kentucky) is from 1774. Long in the tooth (1841 of persons) is from horses showing age by recession of gums. Long time no see, imitative of American Indian speech, is first recorded 1900. To be long on something, “have a lot” of it, is from 1900, American English slang. v.

[huhf] /hʌf/ noun 1. a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don’t walk off in a huff. verb (used with object) 2. to give offense to; make angry. 3. to treat with arrogance or contempt; bluster at; hector or bully. 4. Checkers. to remove (a piece) from the board […]

Make noisy, empty threats; bluster. For example, You can huff and puff about storm warnings all you like, but we’ll believe it when we see it. This expression uses two words of 16th-century origin, huff, meaning “to emit puffs of breath in anger,” and puff, meaning “to blow in short gusts,” and figuratively, “to inflate” […]

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